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Fraser Perring, a champ to short sellers, rose from social work to big Steinhoff win

Sat, Jan 20, 2018 - 5:50 AM

Mr Perring says the ambush incident near his daughter's school crystallised his commitment to his work so much so that he often manages with just four hours of sleep a night.

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New York

A YEAR before unleashing a damning report that detailed accounting irregularities at Steinhoff International Holdings NV, one of its authors faced a reckoning of his own. Minutes after Fraser Perring dropped off his four-year-old daughter at school in December 2016, two men with